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unusual facts about Memel, Free State



Antoni Giełgud

Unable to return to Polish main forces at that time converging on Warsaw, he decided to head of Memel, where he was expecting to receive foreign reinforcements.

Arcusaurus

Arcusaurus is known from two fragmentary skeletons collected in March 2006 at the Spion Kop Heelbo site from the upper Elliot Formation in Senekal in Free State.

Bethlehem bus crash

The bus was transporting 90 trade union delegates to May Day celebrations in the town of Qwa Qwa in the Free State.

Branchipodopsis

Rock pools of this nature occur in various regions of the Southern African subcontinent, including mountain ranges in the Drakensberg, the Western Cape and the Eastern Free State.

Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg

As a result the succession issue could not be resolved in time and the two Mecklenburg grand duchies became separate free states in the Weimar Republic.

Choppies

The South African operations are executed through a wholly owned subsidiary Choppies Supermakets SA (Proprietary) Limited, which operates in the Limpopo, North-West and Free State provinces.

Cincinnati in the American Civil War

Antebellum Cincinnati played a large role in the abolitionist movement, partially due to its location as a major city in the free state of Ohio directly across the river from the slave state Kentucky.

Curonian Spit

The Teutonic Knights occupied the area in the 13th century, building their castles at Memel (1252), Neuhausen (1283), and at Rossitten (1372).

Dave Orchard

His father, Kenneth Orchard and uncle Eric Orchard played first-class cricket for Natal, and his son Justin Orchard for Free State.

Haltoun House

On the first floor the saloon and drawing rooms were fitted out with Memel pine panelling, greatly used in Scottish country houses at the time.

Johan van der Wath

The following year he made his first class debut but only played one more match after that before joining Free State for the beginning of the 1997 South African season.

Karoo Thrush

It occurs in South Africa (Little Namaqualand, Karoo and Northern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and part of the North West Province).

Ladybrand

Ladybrand is a small agricultural town in the Free State province of South Africa, situated 18 km from Maseru, the capital of Lesotho.

Landesstraße

In the free states of Bavaria and Saxony – but not, however, in the Free State of Thuringia – Landesstraßen are known as Staatsstraßen.

Lithuanian litas

In March 1939 Nazi Germany demanded that Lithuania give up the Klaipėda Region (also known as the Memel Territory), which had been detached from Germany after World War I.

Parliament of the Klaipėda Region

According to the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) was detached from East Prussia, German Empire, and placed under temporary administration of the League of Nations.

Principality of Lippe

The Principality of Lippe came to an end on 12 November 1918 with the abdication of Leopold IV, with Lippe becoming a Free State.

Reverse Underground Railroad

Although Illinois was a free state, Crenshaw leased the salt works in nearby Equality, Illinois from the U.S. Government, which permitted the use of slaves for the arduous labor of hauling and boiling brackish water, from local salt springs, to produce salt.

Rilee Rossouw

Rilee Roscoe Rossouw (born 9 October 1989 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State) is a South African cricketer who plays for the Eagles and Free State, as well as Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Rooibaardt

They all lived in Bethlehem in the Free State province of South Africa The name of the band came to them in their "pirate ship", a Volkswagen Combi, on the way to the first gig.

SAFA Second Division

Currently it features 144 teams in total, divided into 9 divisions, borderly decided by the 9 geo-political provinces of South Africa: Eastern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu Natal, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West.

Sand River Convention

The convention was signed on 17 January 1852 by Andries Pretorius (for the Boers) and William Hogge and Mostyn Owen (for Great Britain) in a marquee on the banks of the Sand River near Ventersburg.

Sedan Beehive stone huts

The Sedan Beehive stone huts are a provincial heritage site in Lindley in the Free State province of South Africa.

Seekoei-vlei Nature Reserve

Seekoei-vlei Nature Reserve, is a massive wetland spanning some 30 km², surrounds the town of Memel, in the Free State, province of South Africa, which was declared a Ramsar site in 1999.

Skalvians

This region is located at both sides of the river Memel north of Nadruvians and south of Samogitia.

Sumner County, Kansas

It was named in honor of Charles Sumner, a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1811–74), who was a strong advocate of Kansas becoming a free state.

Tete veld aethomys

However, the current best estimate suggests that Tete veld rats are found in Swaziland and northeastern South Africa, where they are found in the North West, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, and the northern part of Free State province.

Virginia, Free State

When a railway siding was eventually established at this spot, the name was adopted, and it stuck after the discovery of gold in 1949 which resulted in a mushrooming settlement on the banks of the Sand River.


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